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between 4 and 5 spaces per 1000 square feet gross floor area. • Discourage development that would exceed or require normal peak parking demand in order to keep development density intense. • Include on-street parking that fronts each site in the calculation of parking provided for that site. • Provide employee parking in remote areas to allow customer parking nearest to the destination; prohibit employees from parking on down- town streets. • Create preferential parking zones in neighborhoods, if necessary. 3.4 Develop each site to facilitate traffic movement and reduce conflict points. • Provide full access to sites using cross streets; limit access to sites on Pine Street to right in/out. • Allow limited parking lot access from Walnut and River Street. • Allow parking lot circulation at ends of parking aisles to utilize cross streets, if necessary. 3.5 Establish continuity in the patterns of site development to maintain coherency and cohesiveness in downtown. • Establish a common palette of materials for sites in downtown (light- ing,paving, landscape, signs, etc.) • Require that parking lots be 25 percent shaded by trees within 10 years of development. • Use landscaping or ornamental fencing to block view of bumpers and • grills of cars parked in lots adjacent to any public street. • Use indigenous or proven native plant materials, focusing on species 42 241 related to the river or savanna environments. • Encourage signs to be a part of the building rather than the site; allow Screen bumpers and grills of pylon signs for development on Pine Street and between Seventh publicarked carsg that -wre visible from public rights-of-way (Design Street and I-94 only. Guideline 3.5) 4.1 Develop a unified character for all built elements of downtown to yield 4.0 the sense of a true downtown district. The Design of Buildings • Formula and "corporate" architecture, franchise patterns and buildings that are designed as signs shall be prohibited; building design shall rely on"found"character rather than introduced character. • New development shall be compatible with the intentions of the guide- lines for each district, achieving compatibility though similar scale, massing, bulk and detail. eel • Buildings shall be organized with axes perpendicular to streets . �r TMr''` Ai • Each building shall be encouraged to explore some level of individual �},I expression in order to reflect the sense of a downtown district rather �� C than a strip center. • Generally, commercial buildings (retail and office uses) in the Organize buildings with their pri• Riverfront, Broadway -"Downtown" and Walnut Districts shall have maty axis perpendicular to streets flat roofs. (Design Guideline 4.1) • • No building shall exceed a height greater than three stories plus the A New Bridge Revitalizing Monticello's Downtown and Riverfront - Page 3:35